A Police Constable attached to the Weeraketiya Police Station has been arrested on charges of aiding the shooting in Middeniya last month, in which two young children were killed.
The Police said the suspect, a 36-year-old resident of Julampitiya, had provided the 12 bullets of a T-56 firearm to the suspects to carry out the shooting.
A total of 07 suspects have been arrested in connection to the Middeniya shooting.
The Middeniya Police is conducting further investigations.
Two gunmen on a motorcycle had opened fire at an individual travelling on a motorcycle with his young son and daughter.
Following the shooting, the man died on the spot, while his daughter died at the hospital soon after, and his son succumbed to injuries the following day in hospital. (Newswire)
